Going away on holiday gives us the chance to escape the routine of daily life, relax and rejuvenate. If you fall victim to a bout of food poisoning while on holiday, it can ruin the whole experience. You may end up with the feeling that you would have been better off staying at home. What can you do if you have been affected by food poisoning while on holiday and wish to claim compensation? While you are still on holiday You will need to get through the remainder of your holiday as best you can. You may need medical treatment and you should not hesitate to seek medical help if you get food poisoning on holiday. Apart from anything else, the health consequences of food poisoning can be serious if left untreated. From a claim perspective, however, suffering in silence - only to raise the matter on your return home - will make it difficult to prove the link between your illness and the hotel or resort where you stayed. If the hygiene standards at your hotel are poor and you Continue Reading
Personal Injury Lawyer In Moray (How To Focus Your Search For A Solicitor)
If you live in Moray or have been injured in an accident which happened in Moray, here are some factors to consider if you need to choose a solicitor to help you with a personal injury claim. Are you going to use a local solicitor or one who is at a distance from you? A Moray solicitor will have local knowledge, which could be useful and give them an advantage over someone who is not based in the area. For some types of accident - for example, pavement tripping accidents - it can be crucial for someone (often, the solicitor!) to visit the locus of the accident as soon as possible after the accident in order to take photographs and make measurements. A local solicitor is going to be better-placed to carry out such work. Or maybe not. Google Streetview and other free online tools mean that a virtual visit to a locus is often possible and this may be sufficient, depending upon the type of accident. So, it may not be essential to have a local solicitor to deal with your Continue Reading
What Can I Claim Personal Injury Compensation For?
The answer to the question "What can I claim personal injury compensation for?" is something which is bound to influence you in deciding whether or not it is even worth your while bothering with a claim at all. If you are injured in an accident and need to make a claim for compensation, there are various possible elements which can make up your claim as a whole. We tend to refer to these as “heads of claim”. Also note that, in this context, “damages” is another word for “compensation”. The way to think about it is that any loss you have suffered as a result of your accident can probably be compensated. Here is a list of some of the most common elements found in personal injury claims. Your pain and suffering The level of compensation you get for your injuries is calculated on a sliding scale. So, the more serious and long-lasting your injuries, the greater the amount of compensation you will receive. Multiple injuries will increase the value of the claim here, though Continue Reading
Holiday Accidents: When Can You Claim?
This is the time of year when many of us are returning to work with happy holiday memories. However, for some, their vacation will have been spoiled by an accident or illness. Damage to your health is upsetting enough but the difficulties created will be compounded where you don’t speak the local language and are dealing with an unfamiliar health care system. Added to the pain and suffering of your injury is the regret that the money you have spent on your trip has been wasted. If you have been the victim of injury or illness on holiday, can you do anything to recoup your losses? It depends upon the exact circumstances but there are certainly some situations in which you can claim successfully for your physical, emotional and financial loss. Package holidays If, for example, the injury occurred while you were on a package holiday, the focus will be on whether the tour operator is to blame. Tour operators have a legal duty to protect the customers to whom they have sold holidays. Continue Reading